Friday, June 13, 2014

A
very popular book in the North, Sherman’s (1875) Memoirs went far to
further exacerbate sectional hatred as he condemned the South and “took
an almost lustful pride in describing the tremendous power his hand had
wielded in spreading terror and destruction.”

“If
the [Southern] prisons constituted a Northern grievance the South
likewise had its hurtful memories. While Northerners blamed the evil
genius of slavery for the war, Southerners [like Major T.G. Barker
speaking in Charleston in 1870:] pointed the finger of responsibility to
“those men who preached the irrepressible conflict to the Northern
people” and “helped to bring on that unlawful and unholy invasion of the
South.”

The
South felt that it had been betrayed. [The Southern Review in 1867
said:] “Assuredly the subjected portions of this imperial republic (so
called), with the bitter experience they have of outraged honour,
justice, and humanity, on the part of those once their associates and
friends, can never again by any possibility trust that vast engine of
tyranny, a consolidated popular Union, nor derive from it one ray of
hope for their own welfare, or for the happiness of mankind.”

It
was to this “deep spirit of hate and oppression toward the Southern
people,” and not to the necessities of war, that the South attributed
the vast destruction of its property.

The
ineradicable sense of injury felt by the South took concrete form in
condemning the ravages committed by General Sherman’s army in Georgia
and South Carolina. “No tongue will ever tell, no pen can record the
horrors of that march,” wrote an intimate associate of General Joseph E.
Johnston whose surrender to Sherman is sometimes pictured as a love
feast.

“Ten
generations of women will transmit, in whispers to their daughters,
traditions of unspeakable things.” The hurt was accentuated by Northern
pride in the achievement. The South resented the arrogant and jeering
tone of the song, “Marching Through Georgia,” and bridled when Northern
orators described Sherman’s army going through the conquered land “like a
plow of God.” Sherman personified all that the South had suffered.

The
most contentious bone . . . was the destruction of Columbia. Sherman’s
own defense was to blame General Wade Hampton . . . [and] the charge
was made deliberately in Sherman’s official report. “I did it,” he
later wrote, “to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was, in my
opinion, a braggart, and professed to be the special champion of South
Carolina.”

[The
South] cherished a hateful image of the martyred Lincoln . . . who
carried out in action his prophesy of war and destruction. He and his
Cabinet, wrote the Southern Review, had a “perfect comprehension of the
passions, prejudices, susceptibilities, vices and virtues . . . of the
people upon whom they had to practice. They knew every quiver of the
popular pulse . . . They were masters of every artifice that could
mystify and mislead, and of every trick that could excite hope, or
confidence, or rage . . . They filled their armies, established their
financial system, controlled the press, and silenced opposition, by the
same ingenious and bold imposture.”

The
South sneered at a North which observed the Fourth of July and “at the
same time denounced as damnable heresy the doctrines of the Declaration
of Independence.” When Chicago was destroyed by fire in 1871 it was
considered . . . [a] demonstration of Divine vengeance,” because it had
been in Chicago that “the rowdy Lincoln, the prime agent of our woes,
was nominated.” [After the death of] General Custer in the massacre of
1876, it was remembered in Virginia that the gallant martyr of the
Little Big Horn was also the Custer who had executed seven captured
Confederates of Mosby’s command without treating them as prisoners of
war.”

The problem y'all miss is that she truly and honestly believes that the
"gun nuts" will line up and passively turn in firearms ammunition and
freedom. From what I understand of this breed of cat, they also believe
that the few "gun crazy's" who refuse to submit to "reasonable
restrictions" will be quickly hunted down by the people's law forces and
"detained and disarmed". For their own good of course. They genuinely
do not and cannot understand why or how anyone could resist or WANT to
resist.

They cannot commit violence even to save themselves or their
children. The concept of someone who would or COULD engage in armed
violence over something as tenuous as a right is beyond their ability to
understand or even conceive of. War is something that will only exist
as a cartoon in her mind until it happens in her front yard. At that
point she and all those like her will simply curl up in a helpless ball
and cry. OUR problem is that since modern civilization stopped letting
Darwin weed them out, they number in the millions and now wish to force
us to be them.

Like most anglers who tie into big fish, Eric Lester had the kinds of things happen that allow big fish to escape.

But a funny thing happened when the Campbell Hall (Orange County) man
battled a behemoth striped bass last month on the Hudson River. Despite
his reel separating from his rod, and despite the line becoming
entangled in his boat’s propeller, the big fish didn’t get away.

And now Lester is the holder of the new state record striped bass in
the freshwater category, a 60-pounder that easily leapfrogged the
previous standard, a 55-pound, 6-ounce fish also caught in the Hudson
back in 2007.

The saltwater record stands at 76 pounds, caught in 1981 off Long Island.

Heavily armed, well funded, and organized as a professional, standing army, the forces of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) swept southward into Iraq
from Turkey and northeastern Syria, taking the cities of Mosul and
Tikrit, and now threaten the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad itself. The
United States was sure to prop up two unfounded narratives - the first
being that US intelligence agencies, despite assets in Iraq and above it
in the form of surveillance drones, failed to give warning of the
invasion, and that ISIS is some sort of self-sustaining terror
organization carving out a "state" by "robbing banks" and collecting
"donations" on Twitter.

The quickly unfolding drama prompted a White House meeting Wednesday
of top policy makers and military leaders who were caught off guard by
the swift collapse of Iraqi security forces, officials acknowledged.

A senior U.S. official said the intelligence collected under the
small [secret US drone] program was shared with Iraqi forces, but added:
"It's not like it did any good." The rapid territorial gains by the
Islamist forces loyal to Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS, an
al Qaeda offshoot, caught the U.S. by surprise, the officials said.

Despite drone flights collecting intelligence, and a 3-year ongoing CIA program (here, here, and here)
all along the Turkish-Syrian border to "monitor" and "arm" "moderate"
militants fighting the Syrian government, the US claims it was caught
"by surprise." If drones and CIA operatives operating in ISIS territory
weren't enough to detect the impending invasion, perhaps the CIA should
have just picked up a newspaper.

A growing number of Americans are expressing outrage that a
Pennsylvania mother of seven died in jail last weekend while serving a
48-hour sentence over unpaid, school truancy-related fines.Eileen
DiNino, 55, was found dead last Saturday in her jail cell. Authorities
don’t know the cause of death yet, they have ruled out suspicious
behavior.

DiNino was being penalized because several of her children routinely missed school. According to the Associated Press,
“She had racked up $2,000 in fines, fees and court costs since 1999 as
the Reading School District tried to keep her children in class, most
recently at a vocational high school.”

The fines related to school truancy are quite small – perhaps $20 –
but it’s the court-related costs that are most expensive, sometimes
reaching $150. Such costs add up quickly and make it nigh impossible for
low-income parents to pay.

“In recent years, the government has found all sorts of interesting
ways to extract money from people,” said Richard Guida, a lawyer who is
experienced in handling truancy cases.

It was reported today that Chelsea Clinton "earned" and annual salary of
$600,000.00 as a "journalist" at NBC. Sorry but this inexperienced
little spoiled brat didn't "earn" anything. What she was GIVEN was a
massive bribe to guarantee NBC News access to the Hildabeast during her
upcoming run for the Presidency. Corruption and cronyism writ large for
all to see. Anyone who would suggest otherwise is an idiot, a liar or
an employee of the Clinton's.

Half of working Americans (those that actually work) struggle to get by
on less than $37,000.00 a year. They watch as their savings, if thy
have any left, are destroyed by inflation and outright theft by the very
banks that finance the Clinton's campaigns.

Meanwhile these same Democrats and media outlets preach to us about the
great evils of "income inequality" and Hillary bemoans how poor she and
Bill were at the end of his term. Sadly yes, all to many Americans are
just stupid enough to eat this crap sandwich and actually think it's
caviar on toast points.

About 200 Americans under contract with
the Department of Defense at Balad Air Force Base in Iraq are trapped
by the al-Qaida-inspired jihadists who have seized control of two cities
and are now threatening Baghdad, according to WND sources.

The sources, private contractors who have recently returned to the
U.S. from Iraq, said Friday their former colleagues effectively have
been abandoned by the U.S. military and are fighting for their lives
against an army of jihadists surrounding the base who belong to the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.

The U.S. contractors are at Balad to help the Pentagon prepare the
facilities for the delivery of the F-16 aircraft the Obama
administration has agreed to provide the Iraqi government.

The surrounded Americans said they currently are under ISIS fire from small arms, AK47s, and rocket propelled grenades, or RPGs.

Writing for the "Old Single Mom" blog, Chicago area blogger J.A. demands that gun rights advocates show
her "evidence that guns, and more specifically, that military-style
assault weapons are a benefit to society." Failure to come up with an
answer she deems satisfactory is presumably all the reason she would
need to justify banning them (and perhaps confiscating them, as Obama would so dearly love to do). She challenges gun rights advocates:

Where are all the stories about where a semi-automatic weapon was the difference between tragedy and "happily ever after?"
I've got to warn you: I'm a tough sell. I've seen the Defensive Gun Use (#DGU) Reddit thread,
and thwarting off a home invasion here and there is not enough to
balance out hundreds of unexpected funerals for small children. You're
going to have to give me more than that to win me over.

The residents who fought off the "home invasion here and there" might
be forgiven for looking askance at the notion of their successful
defense of their homes being so summarily dismissed. So might the
Korean shopkeepers whose "assault weapons" were vital for the defense of their lives and livelihoods during the Rodney King riots in L.A.

Again, what could possibly go wrong with the recent release of five high-level Taliban commanders in exchange for Sgt. Private Bowe Bergdahl? Just about everything.

Writing in the Weekly Standard,
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Senior Fellow Thomas Joscelyn
writes that the "Taliban 5" are worse "than we've heard." In fact one
of them, Mohammad Fazl, played a key roll in the lead-up to the 2001
9/11 terror attacks.

Since its inception, Dr. Dan’s Freedom Forum has been an advocate for the Free Market as a basis for economic growth and upward personal mobility. Individual freedom, the absence of coercion, is derived from combining the ability to choose one’s future course of action with accepting personal responsibility for the outcome of one’s decisions.

Competition is the tool of the Free Market, leading to increased quality and opportunity . . . the engine of upward mobility. Inevitably, competition leads either to success or failure. Both are part of the process of the Free Market, and the lessons learned from failure are part of every future success.

The Free Market, by providing multiple options, is the nemesis of tyrannical governments. Freedom of Choice is the antagonist of control, and control is what the government desires most of all. To defeat choice, government intervenes in the Free Market to skew the competitive process by preventing failure and creating dependency . . . That’s basic Free Market economic philosophy, Milton Friedman style.

“It has been in every age that it has
been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter, who has wrapped
himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both, to deceive and
overawe the People.”
– Unknown (2 Corinthians 11:14)

Evil men have been, since day one, attempting to deceive the masses
into believing that they are good and upright, when the fruit they
produce through their works are nothing short of evil and destructive. I
want you to see that this method of deceiving the people is still alive
and well among those who have not learned from the past – and Time
magazine is just the propaganda resource to prove my point.

This came from a gentleman who runs a 2,000-acre corn farm up
around Barron, WI, not far from Oshkosh. He used to fly F-4Es and F-16s
for the Guard and participated in the first Gulf War.

His story:

I went out to plant corn for a bit, to finish a field before tomorrow
morning and witnessed The Great Battle. A golden eagle — big, with
about a six-foot wingspan – flew right in front of the tractor. It was
being chased by three crows that were continually dive bombing it and
pecking at it. The crows do this because the eagles rob their nests when
they find them.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.